The Communist Party of Britain has welcomed the results of last Sunday's referendum in Venezuela to create a Constituent Assembly under article 347 of that country's democratically adopted constitution.

The Ban

In December 2015, the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) was outlawed. The ban has been condemned around the world. Amnesty International called it 'a flagrant violation of freedom of expression and association' which should be immediately overturned.

The Communist Party has welcomed Labour's advances in the opinion polls but warns that 18 months of scurrilous attacks on Jeremy Corbyn from the mass media and within his own party have left Labour with a mountain still to climb.

'Recent opinion polls indicate that the Tory lead over Labour is narrowing and that the General Election result is not a foregone conclusion', Nick Wright told the Communist Party's political committee on Wednesday evening.